ZION FLIX CLOSES ITS SEASON WITH TWO PREMIERES (September 20, 2004) Matt Marxtyyn

 The town of Springdale is a welcoming site for dinner and a movie as Zion Flix closes it's film season of new independent films. If you ever
 wanted an alternative to the movie monopoly of mainstream cinema, Zion Flix offers two premiere films this Saturday below the OC Tanner.
 In an announcement last week, Zion Flix will be combining forces with a new film festival called the Zion Independent Film Festival. As part of the partership Festival 
 Director, Shayne Cullen will premiere his local short film The Last Gunfighter at Zion Flix before the Utah premiere of the San Francisco
 independent feature Happily Even After.

 Unsu Lee's Happily Even After is a new sibling rivalry comedy from writer Rebecca Sonnenshine. Unsu remarked he "was drawn to Rebecca Sonnenshine's script 
 because of its compelling story about how siblings can get in the way of each others' development. Having a younger brother of my own, I could appreciate how 
 difficult it is for siblings to communicate with each other..." In the film, Elizabeth (Fay Masterson of The Quick and the Dead) learns that after their parents’ death she 
 must take care of her self-absorbed, directionless younger brother Jake (Jason Behr of the tv series Roswell.) She thinks she knows what’s best for him and tries to 
 get him a new car, a new job and a new life. Jake sees these as superficial trappings; he’s more attached to his parents’ old house and his beloved truck, Wondergirl. 
 Solution: place an ad in the paper for a “fairy-godmother” to watch over Jake. Enter Katie (Marina Black of HBO's Six Feet Under,) a waitress with a mysterious past 
 who seems to see things more clearly than they do. She becomes an unexpected presence in Jake’s life, forcing him to make some changes. Without Jake’s future to 
 worry about, Elizabeth must now confront her own. Set in San Francisco, ‘Happily’ is an urban fairy tale which meditates on fate and coincidence, with a lyrical score 
 by UK band Kid Galahad. 

 Happily Even After won the Audience Award at Cinema Epicuria in Sonoma, California and was part of the Official Selection of this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
 Zion Flix hopes the film will make its return to the Zion Independent Film Festival next year, which is being billed as a "filmmaker's retreat" in Springdale and Zion 
 National Park. The festival will cover all aspects of filmmaking where each film will have guests take a "film tour," beginning with readings and inspirations from the 
 screenplay, walking through other aspects of the film's production and culminating in the screening of the feature. Springdale is the perfect place for such a festival: 
 it was originally considered for Robert Redford's Sundance Institute.

 So if you ever needed to catch up with loose ties with your brother or sister, Springdale offers tubing down the river where you can splash each other like kids agin, 
 visit several art galleries, treat each other to dinner, set each other up with a blind date and end the evening at
 Zion Flix's closing night screening of two great premiere films. The Last Gunfighter and Happily Even After begin at 8pm, this Saturday September 25th at the 
 OC Tanner Amphitheatre Basement in Springdale Utah. Tickets are just $5 at the door. Call 628.0484 or visit